#Immich does not have 2FA and the devs made clear, it's not coming.

[preya@mastodon.social]

@abulling @panda @homelab This has been a feature for ages. Not sure why you think that's missing. It's even described here in the docs: https://docs.immich.app/features/sharing/

[abulling@fedifreu.de]

@preya @panda @homelab Hm, I wonder as well how I missed this. I had even asked in a forum and people referred to the "external library" function instead. ‍️

Thanks a million!

Do they also support user groups by now (did I miss that as well)?

[abulling@fedifreu.de]

@preya @panda @homelab Ah, right. Now I remember what the issue was (it's been a long time since I last looked into this but my browser history showed what I had been looking into):

https://odd.blog/2026/01/16/creating-a-shared-photo-library-in-immich/

"While Immich has shared albums, they don’t quite solve this problem. The photos don’t appear in search and aren’t processed for face recognition or analysis."

The article proposes a solution based on an external library. That's why I still remembered this "solution"...

[fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in]

@tandemblog @hrafnagud @panda @homelab
1 at a time tbvh.
I mean TOTP first, so that at least the basic need is implemented. Rest can come at a later stage if possible. The more ask gets chipped, the more the word NO gets chanted by the devs.

I do understand it all can be done. It also begs the question of a maintainer. Even smaller changes or updates at times may break something. One reason why I said, just implement the basis TOTP at least.

[fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in]

@tandemblog @hrafnagud @panda @homelab
Very true. Not everyone likes to have so many things. I have 40+ TOTPs myself.

[preya@mastodon.social]

@abulling @panda @homelab I know that a lot of sharing things are currently being worked on. So I'd hope that some of these things will be fixed in the upcoming releases.

[vb@sueden.social]

@abulling @preya @panda @homelab @donncha This is the reason I still use Apple Fotos with shared library. #immich is only the backup solution. I will check #Ente and #zeitkapsl whether they have a better solution. But I still like #immich.

[abulling@fedifreu.de]

@vb @preya @panda @homelab @donncha Same here. This (and the missing user groups) is the reason I don't use Immich as our image archive solution.

I briefly tried Ente but it felt/looked too limited in terms of functionality.

[aissen@social.treehouse.systems]

@abulling @vb @preya @panda @donncha Just in case you want to track this, note that this seems to be the #1 item in the Immich roadmap (not that I think order is that important): https://immich.app/roadmap
And is being tracked here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/12614

I haven't decided yet on Immich vs Ente Photos here.

[thedoctor@polymaths.social]

@abulling @vb @preya @panda @homelab @donncha There is also Photoprism, but I have no experience with it. Perhaps it might be worth looking into.

[abulling@fedifreu.de]

@thedoctor @vb @preya @panda @homelab @donncha Tried it as well. Didn't like it either.

Immich is by far the most promising/nice looking software for this in my opinion. But (so far) it still lacks several features that unfortunately prevent me from switching to it completely.

We need user groups - otherwise sharing albums etc is a nightmare once you have more than a handful of people using it.

And shared albums should offer the same functionality as "normal" ones. I don't want to have duplicates or miss out images that show a particular person because Immich can't run duplicate/face detection in shared albums.

[silmaril@chaos.social]

@abulling
I think the immich fork Noodle improves this.

https://github.com/open-noodle/gallery

@preya @panda @homelab

[abulling@fedifreu.de]

@silmaril @preya @panda @homelab Very nice - thanks a lot!